Synthpunk

[morbid_dyspepsia]

They were also really influenced by the Australian "little bands " scene that arose in the late 70s/ early 80s as well as The Normal, The Units and the New York no wave scene with bands like Mars and DNA.

[tiny_tove]

Chrisma - Black Silk Stocking. The greatest synthpunk tune ever from an otherwise super lame Italian new wave duo.

totally agree, I was friend with them and often hung around in the early 90s. Cristina was a vortex and a reak trouble maker, while he was a real gentleman.
they had a strong bond to industrial sub-culture, especially the "ideological" part, in fact they were the first in Italy to do cutup programs with late night channel footage from satellite tv mixing fun stuff, music, sexual content, ecc...
Cristina was dropdead gorgeous as well.

Regarding electro punk at the moment I am completely hooked with Kap Bimbo, as much as I'm not into hysterical female vocal lines, some tunes are incredibly good

[morbid_dyspepsia]

https://www.discogs.com/master/556847-Nervous-Gender-Music-From-Hell

Absolutely amazing. I picked up a cassette copy of this in Tokyo in 2016. I'm guessing everyone here has seen the Live At Target footage?

There was a synth-punk band from Melbourne, Australia about 10 years ago that played in the vein of Primitive Calculators, Slugfuckers, Suicide, Nervous Gender, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDjidDTrvvY
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1971160-Chrome-Dome-2

It's really good! There was a bit of a boom in punk mixed with synth and space rock (or something like that) some 10-15 years ago. I remember listening to a fair amount of bands that had that kind of sound, but don't remember that many of them now. Danish Tumor Warlord might fall in that category although leaning more towards space rock than synthpunk. Space organ punk, haha? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImkARadyzkA&ab_channel=TumorWarlord

Sick. I'll check it now

BTW here's a link for their material - https://www.discogs.com/master/333883-Chrome-Dome-Negative-Vibes

[post-morten]

totally agree, I was friend with them and often hung around in the early 90s. Cristina was a vortex and a reak trouble maker, while he was a real gentleman.
they had a strong bond to industrial sub-culture, especially the "ideological" part, in fact they were the first in Italy to do cutup programs with late night channel footage from satellite tv mixing fun stuff, music, sexual content, ecc...
Cristina was dropdead gorgeous as well.

Regarding electro punk at the moment I am completely hooked with Kap Bimbo, as much as I'm not into hysterical female vocal lines, some tunes are incredibly good

Yeah, Cristina was a total bombshell. She looked like a larger-than-life type of glamour model, much like Amanda Lear. I love this 1978 clip from Italian TV, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsR49YwHAI where the Tom Of Finland styled dancers make up for the atrocious lip synch.

Kap Bambino are very cool. They kind of straddle the line between synthpunk and digital hardcore. But much like Alec Empire's cohort they can only be digested in moderate doses, or you'll choke.

Four Plugs were another obscure late seventies English electronic maverick in the vein of The Normal. The person behind Four Plugs is doing synthpunk-ish stuff to this day under the Repetetive John moniker.

Four Plugs "Wrong Treatment", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfqylOJzqq8
https://repetitivejohn.bandcamp.com/

[morbid_dyspepsia]

Laughing Gear -

https://youtu.be/JlPCXniha3Y
https://www.discogs.com/artist/8273403-Laughing-Gear-2

[Andrew McIntosh]

Someone recently reminded me of The Magits, Nick Blinko's old band before Rudimentary Peni. Amazing release. Raw, sparse, primitive, but musically maybe leaning more to Cold Wave? I love the dourness of it. It would have been a different world if Blinko kept with this instead of forming RP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-e-vbJQug

[Phenol]

Never heard of The Magits - don't care if it's synth punk or not, it's fucking awesome. Thanks for that recommendation! 

[morbid_dyspepsia]

Kaos !

https://youtu.be/bGlN9YIjD-c

[NerveGas]

Kaos !

https://youtu.be/bGlN9YIjD-c

Great ex-Yugo stuff!

[post-morten]

Fascinating! Apparently there were isolated pockets of punks and art school dropouts all over the place abusing their synths within the parameters of rock.

Here's an interesting synthpunk case. Crash Course In Science, who were contemporaries with the likes of Nervous Gender and The Units, pretty much lingered in obscurity until VOD released the box set with their collected works. Now they're gigging and touring like never before. Their most well-known song is arguably "It Costs To Be Austere" from 1981.

Then there's Dutchmen Plus Instruments, probably best known for their brief affiliation with Lee Ranaldo, and first active around the same time as CCIS. Their comeback album from 2013 features the track "Into Oblivion" which to my ears is too close to the CCIS track to be a coincidence. Especially the phrasing of the female vocalists.

It Costs To Be Austere, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZVfYSCRwI8
Into Oblivion, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ4_JkQFyfQ

Plagiarism? I dunno, you be the judge...

[Andrew McIntosh]

It Costs To Be Austere, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZVfYSCRwI8
Into Oblivion, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ4_JkQFyfQ

Plagiarism? I dunno, you be the judge...

I really like both those tracks, but I'm sorry, I really don't hear much correlation between the two, myself.

Never heard of The Magits - don't care if it's synth punk or not, it's fucking awesome. Thanks for that recommendation! 

No worries.

[Compuder]

Tarkamt - "Live at the Necropolis" (2018)

Egyptian synthpunk / noise.
https://doomtrip.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-necropolis

[impulse manslaughter]

Then there's Dutchmen Plus Instruments, probably best known for their brief affiliation with Lee Ranaldo, and first active around the same time as CCIS. Their comeback album from 2013 features the track "Into Oblivion" which to my ears is too close to the CCIS track to be a coincidence. Especially the phrasing of the female vocalists.

Plus Instruments LP w/ crude lofi material from 79/80 coming soon on my label.

[Zeno Marx]

https://coseymueller.bandcamp.com/music

how about this?  the first is more in a Kraftwerkian minimalist new wave area, but the second moves towards 80's indie territory.  The first could almost be something on Galakthorro.  I like them both quite a bit.